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Hidden: A gripping dark fiction novel
"Original, imaginative and compelling."
"Raw and moving."
Her instinct is to get to the truth. His instinct is to run like hell from it.
In the abandoned buildings skirting the world’s richest city are a hidden tribe – men who have turned their backs on their old lives and the society that rejects them. They have cultivated a new life, loyal to a doctrine that forbids them from dwelling on their pasts or speculating on their future. It keeps them at peace. And for Jacob, it keeps him alive.
But when an Outsider from the city forces her way into Jacob’s life, that peace is shattered. A frustrated journalist, Sada is determined to learn more about the depth of the scars her city is leaving behind in its quest for financial global power. Except her persistence not only threatens Jacob’s place in the tribe, it leads him to question it.
At the same time as the cracks rise to the surface of this once idealised existence, so do pieces of a past Jacob has long since buried, an event so dark and brutal that until now even his own mind has protected him from it. Resisting Sada’s hand of friendship and the instinctive pull of the ‘outside world’, Jacob is forced into making a choice…
Remain loyal to a doctrine he no longer believes in. Or else face a past that will surely kill him.
Hidden is the first book in the Hidden Sanctuary US urban dystopia series
"Raw and moving."
Her instinct is to get to the truth. His instinct is to run like hell from it.
In the abandoned buildings skirting the world’s richest city are a hidden tribe – men who have turned their backs on their old lives and the society that rejects them. They have cultivated a new life, loyal to a doctrine that forbids them from dwelling on their pasts or speculating on their future. It keeps them at peace. And for Jacob, it keeps him alive.
But when an Outsider from the city forces her way into Jacob’s life, that peace is shattered. A frustrated journalist, Sada is determined to learn more about the depth of the scars her city is leaving behind in its quest for financial global power. Except her persistence not only threatens Jacob’s place in the tribe, it leads him to question it.
At the same time as the cracks rise to the surface of this once idealised existence, so do pieces of a past Jacob has long since buried, an event so dark and brutal that until now even his own mind has protected him from it. Resisting Sada’s hand of friendship and the instinctive pull of the ‘outside world’, Jacob is forced into making a choice…
Remain loyal to a doctrine he no longer believes in. Or else face a past that will surely kill him.
Hidden is the first book in the Hidden Sanctuary US urban dystopia series
373 pages, Kindle Edition
Published January 11, 2019
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T.L. Dyer
18 books7 followersT.L. Dyer is a writer of character-driven fiction, including crime, police procedural and dystopia. Her stories and characters delve, discover and disrupt, always teetering precariously on that thin line between darkness and light, right and wrong, good and bad.
She is particularly keen on exploring those individuals who set themselves apart from the norm or who stray down a different path. Taking her lead from the characters themselves, she trails behind scribbling notes and trying to keep up as they take her on a breathless, heart-thumping and thought-provoking journey, with no knowing where she might end up.
T.L. lives in South Wales, UK, with her family and eternally bedraggled Yorkshire Terrier.
Join T.L.'s Reading Tribe by downloading your FREE CRIME BOOK at www.TLDyer.com, exclusive to subscribers. And be sure to follow her on BookBub to learn about new releases, www.bookbub.com/authors/t-l-dyer
She is particularly keen on exploring those individuals who set themselves apart from the norm or who stray down a different path. Taking her lead from the characters themselves, she trails behind scribbling notes and trying to keep up as they take her on a breathless, heart-thumping and thought-provoking journey, with no knowing where she might end up.
T.L. lives in South Wales, UK, with her family and eternally bedraggled Yorkshire Terrier.
Join T.L.'s Reading Tribe by downloading your FREE CRIME BOOK at www.TLDyer.com, exclusive to subscribers. And be sure to follow her on BookBub to learn about new releases, www.bookbub.com/authors/t-l-dyer
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December 19, 2019
Such an original, imaginative and compelling dystopian future where the corporations have taken over and truth no longer means anything. Tenacious journalist Sada and the mysterious Jacob both hide secrets and in their own ways rebel against authority and struggle for freedom. I enjoyed the tantalising glimpses into the Tribe members’ pasts and their mental struggles felt so raw and moving. Definitively recommend this book. I can’t wait to read book 2!
February 15, 2020
Urban dystopian
This story is set within an alternative reality where within the cashless society, giant corporations literally running the government. Where greed, power and money reign supreme.
Sada, a journalist was attacked and somehow stumbles into Jacob who pleads with her life and he takes her to the hospital.
People like Jacob consider themselves outcasts of society, yet in order to survive form they form their own society, hence “the tribe” who lives by certain doctrines (see blurb). For them to consider society as “outsiders” is fitting because it was society that didn’t want to help them.
Since Jacob’s run in with Sada, she’s appeared in his nightmares along with the past he wishes to forget. I suppose it’s partly PTSD and suppressing the past and not knowing or wanting to deal with it. So as they continue to meet up and try to understand each other through very minimal verbal communication at the start, it becomes clear that Jacob starts questioning the doctrines and his feelings - there’s no mention on a specific emotion but boy I’m feeling what he is feeling. I think Sada feels it too as he slowly opens up to her.
This story deals with sensitive issues of mental illness and addictions.
This story is set within an alternative reality where within the cashless society, giant corporations literally running the government. Where greed, power and money reign supreme.
Sada, a journalist was attacked and somehow stumbles into Jacob who pleads with her life and he takes her to the hospital.
People like Jacob consider themselves outcasts of society, yet in order to survive form they form their own society, hence “the tribe” who lives by certain doctrines (see blurb). For them to consider society as “outsiders” is fitting because it was society that didn’t want to help them.
Since Jacob’s run in with Sada, she’s appeared in his nightmares along with the past he wishes to forget. I suppose it’s partly PTSD and suppressing the past and not knowing or wanting to deal with it. So as they continue to meet up and try to understand each other through very minimal verbal communication at the start, it becomes clear that Jacob starts questioning the doctrines and his feelings - there’s no mention on a specific emotion but boy I’m feeling what he is feeling. I think Sada feels it too as he slowly opens up to her.
This story deals with sensitive issues of mental illness and addictions.
July 27, 2022
This story is good, very different but worth the read.
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